Cotton-chopper.



S. C. SENN.

COTTON CHOPPER,

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1912.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

Inventor Attorneys 1 COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CO jYASHINGTON, D. c.

ears are SAIVIUAL C. SENN, OF TENNEIiLE, ALABAMA.

COTTON-CHOPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

Application filed September 26, 1912. Serial No. 722,542.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, SAMUAL C. SENN, a citizenof the United States, residing at Tennelle, in the county of Pike andState of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Cotton-Chopper, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cotton choppers, its object being to provide asimple and compact device of this character which can be readilymanipulated and which utilizes a series of chopping hoes or bladesadapted to rotate in a vertical plane extending transversely of the pathof movement of the machine, said hoes receiving motion from one or bothof the supporting wheels of the machine.

A further object is to provide a machine of this character having meanswhereby the draft animals can travel along either side of the row beingchopped.

.Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention hasbeen shown.

In said drawings :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2is a plan View thereof. Fig. 3 is an end View of the hoes.

ieferring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates themain frame of the machine, the same being mounted upon a revoluble axle2 which, in turn, is supported by wheels 3 one or both of which may befixedly connected to the axle 2 so as to rotate it. A. gear 4 is securedto and rotates with axle 2 and meshes with another gear 5 secured to thefront end portion of a shaft (3. This shaft extends longitudinally ofthe frame and is journaled within a cross strip 7 and within one endstrip 8 of the frame. Shaft 6 extends rearwardly beyond the frame and isprovided, at its rear end, with a hub 9 from which extend radial arms10.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for equidistant from each other.

Each of these arms is provided, at its outer end, with a hoe or blade 11from the rear or back edge of which extends a series of fingers 12. Allof the blades are equidistant from the shaft and the blades are alsoHandles 13 extend upwardly and rearwardly from the sides of frame 1 andconnected to the front end of the frame is a clevis 1 1 having anelongated bar 15 to which the draft animal may be attached. As this baris of considerable length it will be apparent that the draft animal cantravel along either side of the row being chopped.

In using the machine, the same is drawn along the row to be chopped, thewheels 3 traveling at opposite sides of the row. Motion is transmittedto axle 2 from one or both of the wheels 3 and shaft 6 will thus berotated so as to cause the blades or hoes 11 to come successively intoposition to chop plants from the row. As the machine is moving forwardduring the rotation of the shearing hoes or blades, it will be seen thatcertain of the plants in the row will be left standing whiletheintermediate plants will be chopped out.

Importance is attached to the fact that the machine is very simple andcompact in construction and may be easily manipulated. By reason of thefew parts employed in the construction of the machine, the device willnot easily get out of order and the power required to operate it isreduced to the minimum.

Vhatis claimed is:

In a cotton chopper the combination with a wheel supported structure, ashaft and means for rotating the shaft, of arms extending radially fromthe shaft, hoes upon the ends of the arms, and parallel fingersextending from the rear ends of the hoes and constituting continuationsthereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixedmy signa ture in presence of two witnesses.

hi SAMUAL 0. 2 siiNN. mark Witnesses J. F. I-lrorrrownn, F. C. Bass.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

